you asked him to prove something, yet you banned him. I am also troubled by the fact you made an allegation, seemingly without without any factual basis, and then ask for proof to disprove the allegation. Would you like to be treated this way?

I am treated this way all the time both here & at other sites. Someone makes what I consider an inaccurate statement. I say so. They respond: “prove it.” And if I have the proof I do. That’s generally the way discussions & political argument works.

My statement was not “seemingly without factual basis.” It was based on a conversation I had with a blogger who knows quite a bit about the inner workings of PJM.

I didn’t ban Aussie Dave because I didn’t want him to present his proof. I banned him because he called me a “liar” w/o any proof of the claim. My comment rules clearly indicate (read them please) that if you make such charges against me you are liable to be banned.

Also, I offered to publish any proof he would provide and said that I would believe him if he offered it. If he was acting in good faith he would take me up on this offer. Instead, his response was to promise me a lawsuit for being a “liar,” a charge he still hasn’t proven. Thankfully, judges have a bit higher standard of proof than Aussie Dave seems to have.

I am sorry Richard, but you are in the wrong here.

He can’t respond if he’s been banned.

Oh, trust me. He has my e mail address. He’ll give me a piece of his mind. But if he chooses to provide the proof I’ll publish the comment. But I strongly doubt he will.

If his next e mail manages not to accuse me of lying or beating my wife, then I’ll likely unban him–till he goes & says something obnoxious again (there’s always a next time with him).

Another reason I have to ban him periodically is that he’ll publish 20 comments in this thread if I let him saying virtually the same thing over & over again.

UPDATE: Wouldn’t you know, Aussie Dave didn’t waste any time in e mailing me as I wrote above. He’s now threatened (or promised–I can’t tell which) a lawsuit. Not sure what the grounds would be–other than allegedly lying and making him very, very mad. Sit tight everyone, this could get hairy.

It’s not lying unless I know it not to be true. If you can prove here that you resigned rather than were dropped then I can accept yr word.

He can’t respond if he’s been banned.

Leaving aside the fact that I clearly notified you to take it down (and the last time I did this

No, you’re implying you asked me more than once & you didn’t. When you demanded I remove it I did initially. But petty annoyance with you got the better of me and I reposted a heavily edited picture which totally obliterated your image. I shouldn’t have done that. I shouldn’t have posted any image at all, even one that essentially WAS no longer an image of you. But I didn’t & I’m sorry for that. The image is gone as you say and will not return.

For the record, I left PJM, and was not booted. Another case of blatant lying.

You’re confusing a lie with an inaccurate statement. If I say something I know not to be true, that’s a lie. That’s clearly not what I did since a number of PJM bloggers were dropped at the precise time your affilation ended. It would be only reasonable to assume that just as their contracts were not renewed, yours wasn’t as well. If you can prove here that you resigned rather than were dropped then I can accept yr word. If you can’t do that then I’ll accept Dennis the Peasant’s word that a number of PJMers were dropped around last April because they weren’t pulling their numbers and that you likely were one of them.

I want your readers to know that you lie about the small things AND the larger things.

Nothing you said in yr comment shows me to be a liar. And for calling me one w/o any proof whatsoever you’re banned once again for a few weeks.

If you weren’t so prone to moderating and amending my comments, I would take you to task for much of what you write which is patantly false and shows intellectual laziness and dishonesty.

Come off it, you’ve written thousands of words in my comment threads vainly attempting to do precisely that. If you haven’t succeeded till now you clearly won’t fare any better in future attempts.

in principal, I don’t see how what you do is morally different from what you are accusing others of doing.

There are several distinctions at least as I see it. First, I believe in reciprocating so that if anyone asks me for free use of my images I always oblige unless they are making a commerical use of it or using it to defame me. Second, when I use an image I do not defame or insult the copyright owner as Plaut, Masada2000 and Jewlicious have done. Third, Masada2000 also includes with each image it features, the personal e mail address of the victim which is an ever deeper privacy violation. Fourth, it is common practice for many millions of bloggers to use images in the way I have. Fifth, I always credit the photographer in my blog so that people know whose photo I’m using. Sixth, I prominently state that I will immediately remove any image if a copyright holder wishes me to.

The sites I mention above violate each of these provisions.

You clearly put up the image on your site with a mocking, defaming caption. So quit whining about bad behavior of which you are also guilty.

For the record, I left PJM, and was not booted. Another case of blatant lying.

I want your readers to know that you lie about the small things AND the larger things. If you weren’t so prone to moderating and amending my comments, I would take you to task for much of what you write which is patantly false and shows intellectual laziness and dishonesty.

You show me one message you ever sent to me directly asking me SPECIFICALLY to take the image down. You show me one attempt you ever made to get my webhost to take it down. I make it a habit to never read yr site unless I have to. I never saw any statement you made at yr site asking me to take the image down if you did make one. I did not know you wanted it taken down. Even when you wrote to me initially that you didn’t like my displaying the image you NEVER asked me to take it down. You waited a year after I put the image up & then demanded I take it down. And you only did that because you were pissed that I compared the group running the current JIB award process favorably to the way you ran it. Why did you allow the image to remain on my site that long if it bothered you so much?

Unlike you, I have complained loudly & vociferously to the webhosts hosting the sites which have violated my copyright & done so immediately after finding out about the violations. They will be receiving second DMCA notices next week. It’s also likely the copyright violators themselves will receive cease and desist letters personally in the near future. Unlike the way you related to me, both they & their webhosts will know what I want.

To say that I left up the image of you but smudged out yr face is ridiculous. There was no image of you. There was a black space where yr image used to be. No one would know it was you. Even the caption for the image didn’t mention you.

I expected this response fr. you. I wonder why it took you so long.

Oh, & I’m really sorry to hear that PJM dropped you as one of their featured bloggers. You really were meant for ea. other.

So cry us a river. You are a hypocrite.